£300 -6 months shopping list help needed

caledoniaquine

Have you bought those large quantities from Tescos before, just asking because Tesco have recently stopped someone from buying 25 pouches of cat food from one of there stores.

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/868467

Id hate to think of you making your way round store only to be told your not allowed that quantities.

mum_of_4

My budget for the rest of the stuff is going to be £200 but i want to try and double this buy using every trick in the book.

I'm going to use as many coupons as i can and very careful shopping to do this. Even just buying 20 pints of milk each week is £181.25 for the 6 months so it's going to be interesting to say the least.

mum_of_4

caledoniaquine wrote: »

Have you bought those large quantities from Tescos before, just asking because Tesco have recently stopped someone from buying 25 pouches of cat food from one of there stores.

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/868467

Id hate to think of you making your way round store only to be told your not allowed that quantities.

Actually this did occur to me but i checked this morning and they said it would be fine although the lady on the CS desk did laugh and said poor stocking of shelves might mean i'll have to come back for some bits.

I'm going to write my list and take it som if i have to go in again i will stick to the list like glue.

sandraroffey

:rotfl: and how many shopping trollies is this going to take??? wish i was there to see it.xx

caledoniaquine

Thats ok then, I would have been pretty annoyed if I filled my tolley up with all that only to be told I cant have it lol

mum_of_4

sandraroffey wrote: »

:rotfl: and how many shopping trollies is this going to take??? wish i was there to see it.xx

and my fav cashiers will laugh too as they've never seen me spend more than £20 in one go. even when NOTW do the spend £30 get £5 off I've always used a couple of coupons and got it just under £20.

Infact the cashiers always ask me if i know of any glitches or free coupons.

I'm going to keep a diary just so i can report back my spend each week and savings. Although I'm doing this beacuse needs must i might just open my eyes into what i can do with a very small budget.

Just incase i haven't said it yet - Thankyou everyone for you help. When i started working it out i realised it takes a bit of planning. Like teabags:rotfl:

echelon101

I see you put honey down at 69p how about Peanut Butter instead at 55p. It's higher in kcals and contains good un-saturated fats. I will also leave the consumer more satiated than the honey.

Also don't buy the small packs of 1kg tesco oats buy the 2kg of Mornflake Oats which are £1.01. You will get 3kg extra porridge for £14.50, which is a lot, that's about 60 servings for a normal person at 50g or 40 for me

Also every considered getting it delivered? I am sure you can find a MOC for Free Delivery.

mum_of_4

echelon101 wrote: »

I see you put honey down at 69p how about Peanut Butter instead at 55p. It's higher in kcals and contains good un-saturated fats. I will also leave the consumer more satiated than the honey.

Nut allergy

Also don't buy the small packs of 1kg tesco oats buy the 2kg of Mornflake Oats which are £1.01. You will get 3kg extra porridge for £14.50, which is a lot, that's about 60 servings for a normal person at 50g or 40 for me

are they in tecso?

Also every considered getting it delivered? I am sure you can find a MOC for Free Delivery.

would love it to be delivered but found out earlier that you can't use the gift cards for grocery delivery:rolleyes:

sb44

Sorry if someone else has already mentioned this elsewhere but I haven't had the time to search.

At the minute Tesco are selling off their BBQ range from the summer, most of it is reduced to either £1 or £1.50.

One of the best things that they have are packs of chili marinated chicken breasts.

There are 4 boneless breasts in each bag for £1 instead of £3.

So you will get at least 2 meals out of each bag, even 4 meals if you cut one breast up thinly and put it in a stir fry or a pasta dish etc.

I have been leaving a bag to deforst then cooking them in my steamer for 20 mins.

Once cooked they I normally use two straight away and cooled and freeze the other two so that I can just take those out to use straight away for sandwich fillings or into another dish.

They have some lovely sweet cured bacon chops too but they don't for very far (4 for £4.50 but one each is enough).

Hope this helps a little.


Sharon

shellnapier

yeah i would def buy a large loo roll pack.
you thought about maybe gettn a few tesco value pizzzas?